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Fast-food restaurant serving interactive experience

April 17, 2004

BURNABY, British Columbia -- McDonald's customers in Canada now can add high-speed access to their fast-food orders.

Info Touch Technologies Corp. (CDNX: IFT) and McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited are testing Web-enabled interactive kiosks that allow customers access to video e-mail, video teleconferencing, couponing and mapping solutions.

The kiosks currently are available in eight restaurants -- six in Edmonton and one each in Burnaby and Regina.

The joint venture is part of the companies' vision for the quick-service restaurant's future, Info Touch chairman and CEO, Hamed Shahbazi, said in a news release.

Info Touch and McDonald's want to provide end-to-end kiosk solutions that entertain and inform customers during their dining experiences, Shahbazi said. McDonald's and its franchisees operate more than 1,200 Canadian restaurants. The companies have not released a timeframe for future roll outs.

[Editor's note: Info Touch Technologies became Tio Networks in April 2006.]